[ If Bruce had Barry's ability, he isn't sure that he'd have been able to keep himself from trying, by now. If not for his parents*, then for his son. A thing too big for any one person to have, the knowledge of it a constant presence - akin to how Clark feels, he wonders? And yet what Barry can do is beyond that.
His mind hooks onto something else, though, and Bruce sets his coffee aside to lean in, making sure that he gets Barry's eyes. ]
If you want to assign a fault, then it's mine. I didn't get enough parademons away from you, I brought you into this, I didn't stop Luthor in time to prevent him from communicating with worlds beyond ours.
[ Also, he tried to kill Superman. But he's gone ten rounds with blame already with that, against Clark, and he's not willing to tie an anchor to Barry's foot with that one. It sucks, it's miserable, but it's between them; if he hadn't done it, there wouldn't have been a weapon to kill Doomsday, and then where would they be? An awful paradox which he loathes, but things are what they are. ]
Thank you for saving us, Barry. None of that worked without you. We all had a part in it and none of us were perfect. And what you did was incredible. Not just that you have the ability, but you had the nerve for it.
( * like maybe he already had zombie mom and dad back during that weird time in the 80s when he was still a kid and the murders were very fresh and a magic wish brought his parents back to life then a glowing godlike voice from a tv told him he was a selfish monster about it and now he's too traumatized to try again WONDER WOMAN 84 YOU WERE A HELL OF A FILM )
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His mind hooks onto something else, though, and Bruce sets his coffee aside to lean in, making sure that he gets Barry's eyes. ]
If you want to assign a fault, then it's mine. I didn't get enough parademons away from you, I brought you into this, I didn't stop Luthor in time to prevent him from communicating with worlds beyond ours.
[ Also, he tried to kill Superman. But he's gone ten rounds with blame already with that, against Clark, and he's not willing to tie an anchor to Barry's foot with that one. It sucks, it's miserable, but it's between them; if he hadn't done it, there wouldn't have been a weapon to kill Doomsday, and then where would they be? An awful paradox which he loathes, but things are what they are. ]
Thank you for saving us, Barry. None of that worked without you. We all had a part in it and none of us were perfect. And what you did was incredible. Not just that you have the ability, but you had the nerve for it.
( * like maybe he already had zombie mom and dad back during that weird time in the 80s when he was still a kid and the murders were very fresh and a magic wish brought his parents back to life then a glowing godlike voice from a tv told him he was a selfish monster about it and now he's too traumatized to try again WONDER WOMAN 84 YOU WERE A HELL OF A FILM )